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Originally Posted by jasonbvr
You know some of my students when they leave their local middle school will ride their bike for one to two hours through the rain or frigid cold to get to high school at 8 am. Then after you finish school, clean the building and do your sports or art club, they all go to cram school where they study more until about 9 or 10 and ride home to do their homework. Right now, the kids are supposedly out for winter holiday but a lot are at school right now doing club activities all day. Running outside in thirty degree weather and practicing their instruments for four to five hours a day, and the senior students are all studying for their high school entrance exams twenty-four seven. This the dedication you will need. Year round, twenty-four seven, school is your life until after high school.
Finish school in the US or where ever you may be. The school system here is not something any human being should suffer through. Saying it's tough doesn't even begin to describe it.
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I will say this I am a graduate of a US school and even with how hard the schooling would be I wish I had been able to attend a school like the japanese schools. The teachers I had were usually not good at teaching and would only teach one method. If the students did not understand they would say oh well you need to study more and then they would leave it. I started ditching high school after the high school I was attending was forced to close and half of us were put into our rival school mid-year. I couldn't understand the class work and the teachers did not really care because instead of 30 students they now had 40-45 per class.
It took me a while but when we moved I finally started attending school again... that was after I was finally allowed into the nearest high school, (they did not want me) my mother threatened to call the school board if they did not allow me to attend. All of my classes had 30-35 students to 1 teacher. I started also going to night school. Due to family stuff I had to move around the end of my junior year of high school.
The high school I was attending did not give us correct information on how to transfer students who also attend night school. The councilor basically told us I would be moved out and all my grades transferred as well including night school grades. Wrong!! Apparently the Night School had to transfer my Night School Grades to my High School before I was transferred out of my High School and then everything would be transferred to the New High School. I had been working my butt off for a year and had mostly all A+ grades with one A- grade.
All of it was down the toilet and could not be recovered even though it was lost through no fault of my own. The only grades I had were the High School grades A's and B's. At the next school I got to repeat a year but the teachers were no better. They would give us the test questions and answers a week before the test and read a lil and that was the course work. I graduated as quickly as possible. Oh as well the school councilors give you a weekend with no help to decide what you want to do in college, and then when you turn in the application a hurried 15 min's discussion, that is interrupted, on your choice if you have one.
Because I did not know what I wanted to do besides something with art, like being an illustrator, I decided not to go into college right away because I did not want to get into debt possibly not have a steady job after school. Then I never seemed to be able to save enough money and thought after my high school difficulties that I would not be able to get into a college with a grant/ loan.
Maybe its wrong but I think this wouldn't happen or would be less likely to happen over in Japan because they take their studying so much more seriously. Anyone think differently? If so please explain...
Btw maybe you could say this was just my experience but a lot of people I know complain about the same stuff and or similiar things happening to them. Usually due to school systems being different such as in Alaska you either graduate or do not graduate but in Nevada you have to have so many credits to qualify for being a sophomore, junior etc. and having different classes available or not available.
I'm pretty content with life right now....For the most part, anyway....Well, at least, I'm pretty sure I am....
08-14-2010, 08:33 AM
